diff --git a/html5lib/__init__.py b/html5lib/__init__.py
index 473c265f..8ee9b53e 100644
--- a/html5lib/__init__.py
+++ b/html5lib/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
            "getTreeWalker", "serialize"]
 
 # this has to be at the top level, see how setup.py parses this
-__version__ = "0.999999999-dev"
+__version__ = "0.999999999"